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WSJ on Eminent Domain in Brooklyn
By Ryan Chittum Oct 14, 2009 at 10:24 AM
It's almost never a bad idea to do an eminent-domain story, especially the Kelo-type ones that pit the government in... More
Tuesday Links: Scrubbed Dirty, Game Theory, Taxes
By Ryan Chittum Oct 13, 2009 at 07:10 PM
Charles Duhigg's investigation of the state of the nation's water continues today with an excellent piece on page one of... More
BizWeek Emblematic of the Fall of Print
From $1 billion to less than $5 million in nine years
By Ryan Chittum Oct 13, 2009 at 06:37 PM
The big business-media news this week will be BusinessWeek's sale to Bloomberg for $2 million to $5 million plus the... More
NYT’s Sorkin Is Confused on Goldman Bonuses
By Ryan Chittum Oct 13, 2009 at 04:27 PM
Clueless paragraph of the day: But we can’t have it both ways, either. At one moment, many in the nation... More
Stimulate This!
Slate’s Gross debunks stimulus nonsense
By Ryan Chittum Oct 13, 2009 at 01:55 PM
Like Daniel Gross, I get the impression that people, including many journalists, just can't get their heads around the stimulus.... More
Monday Links: Reuters Investigates, Debt Iceberg, USAT
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2009 at 05:58 PM
Chris Roush reports that Reuters is hiring some investigative reporters, a welcome development in a time of reduced journalistic ambitions.... More
WaPo: Why BofA Lags on Mortgage Redos
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2009 at 04:42 PM
The Washington Post asks why Bank of America is so far behind everyone else on its mortgage-modification program. It's only... More
Maremont and the Journal Hammer Option Schemes
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Anytime The Wall Street Journal's news pages can make the editorial side spit up their eggs benedict, well, that has... More
WSJ and Reuters on High-Frequency Trading
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2009 at 06:30 AM
The press continues to try to shine a light on high-frequency trading. This morning, The Wall Street Journal reports on... More
Bloomberg Good on Stock Research
By Ryan Chittum Oct 9, 2009 at 09:35 AM
Bloomberg has a solid look this morning at stock-research and the conflicts that still pervade the Wall Street research business... More
Thursday Links: Landlord Ben, Geithner, Elizabeth Warren
By Ryan Chittum Oct 8, 2009 at 06:44 PM
Matthew Goldstein of Reuters looks at the thicket the Federal Reserve finds itself in because of its assumption of all... More
WSJ on De-Leveraging and the Economy
By Ryan Chittum Oct 8, 2009 at 04:31 PM
The Journal on page one today says we're experiencing a "Drought of Credit." I'm not sure it shows that, but... More
AP: Geithner’s Wall Street Speed Dial
By Ryan Chittum Oct 8, 2009 at 10:01 AM
The Associated Press rakes a little muck onto Tim Geithner's shoe this morning courtesy of his own phone records. Who... More
Wednesday Links: Weedkiller, Bloomberg Heds, and WSJ Analysis
By Ryan Chittum Oct 7, 2009 at 06:22 PM
Charles Duhigg's fruitful investigative summer appears to be getting results. He reports today in The New York Times that the... More
Detroit News on the Downside of the 401(k)
By Ryan Chittum Oct 7, 2009 at 05:49 PM
With all the turmoil in the stock market over the last couple of years—well, make that the last twelve years... More
Miami Herald Gets a Deserved Pat on the Back
By Ryan Chittum Oct 7, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Congrats to Jack Dolan, Matthew Haggman, and Rob Barry of The Miami Herarld for winning first place in the the... More
The Journal Inside the Hilton Grand Jury
By Ryan Chittum Oct 7, 2009 at 09:53 AM
The Journal has some very good reporting today on a scandal in the normally-staid chain-hotel business (part of which I... More
Tuesday Links: Bloomberg v. Fed, Hypothermia, The Economist
By Ryan Chittum Oct 6, 2009 at 05:43 PM
Bloomberg News continues its battle to let a little sunshine in on what the Federal Reserve is doing to bail... More
Nonsense at Newsweek on Overdrafts
Columnist pulls the ol’ personal-responsibility card
By Ryan Chittum Oct 6, 2009 at 04:14 PM
Steve Tuttle of Newsweek has one of the worst columns I've seen in a good long time, arguing "Why Banks... More
NYT and Frontline Tag-Team Prepaid Debit Cards
By Ryan Chittum Oct 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM
The New York Times and PBS's Frontline have a terrific story this morning on prepaid debit cards, yet another way... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
